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Barbara and Marilyn were brought up by two of the most successful hoteliers ever — Curt and Arleen Carlson, a couple who brought success to everything they touched. They began Gold Bond Stamp Company, a customer-loyalty company, with a $55 loan during the Great Depression. In 1960, they bought a tenth of a hotel and built it into the Radisson chain. In 1975 they bought a small group of restaurants that's now TGI Fridays.
The Carlsons built their business with trust and tireless work — what Curt called his "restless gene." He passed that gene onto his daughters. Of course the two are a mix of their parents, but they can clearly see who takes after whom — Marilyn inherited her father's brown hair and zeal for business while Barbara inherited her mother's blond locks and caring touch.
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As they grew older, Marilyn eventually succeeded her father as CEO of Carlson, continuing to grow the business into an international corporation. Barbara succeeded her father as president of the Carlson Family Foundation, focusing it on youth issues and education.
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Curt Carlson had a habit of scribbling down goals and hanging on to the paper until they were realized.
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Their parents also instilled the company credo that they still recite. It's also posted on both their company and foundation websites: "Whatever you do, do with integrity. Wherever you go, go as a leader. Whomever you serve, serve with caring. Whenever you dream, dream with your all. And never, ever give up."
Marilyn, who served as chair of Mayo Clinic's board of trustees for four years before stepping down in February 2014, says the credo easily could be Mayo's. "I think that that credo is really close to Mayo Clinic's mission and their values of caring and of innovation and of being patient centered."
Four generations of the Carlson family have entrusted their care to Mayo Clinic. And because their family's philosophy and Mayo Clinic's approach to care are so closely aligned, the Carlson Family Foundation recently gave a leadership-level gift to the Center for Individualized Medicine. The gift will help Mayo tailor care to each individual's unique genetic makeup.
"With this gift, we're going to see how individualized medicine affects so many patients and people," Barbara says.
Marilyn's husband, Glen Nelson, is a doctor and former vice chairman of the medical device company Medtronic. He says the gift, because it supports Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine, will make the type of firsthand impacts the family foundations of the Nelsons and Carlsons want to achieve.
"Medicine in the future will incorporate the use of an individual's genetic information in designing both lifestyle recommendations and medical interventions," he says. "We'll have the ability to actively manipulate an individual's genetic profile and replace or modify genes or even modify gene expressions.
"Mayo Clinic has both the tools and the environment in which that will happen faster and more precisely. Therefore, it will really contribute to the adoption of individualized medicine and provide leadership for the rest of the medical community, which is sometimes slow to adopt meaningful new ways of taking care of patients."
To honor the family's generosity, Mayo Clinic is naming the directorship of the Center for Individualized Medicine, currently held by Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., in their honor.
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Marilyn and Barbara aren't focused on the recognition. Marilyn says she and Dr. Farrugia share the same goal — to help as many people as possible.
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That's something that resonates with both sisters, who have watched as Mayo's commitment to the patient has never wavered throughout generations of their family's care.
"We're kind of bionic people thanks to Mayo," Marilyn says. "Mayo is our partner for healthy living. I don't know what we'd do without Mayo in our lives."
Back at the Radisson Blu, as photographers, videographers, interviewers and business colleagues vie for their attention, each sister reflects on how important the other is. It would have been nearly impossible to achieve their dreams — and their parents' — without one another.
"I've just always felt grateful that we're sisters. We are so similar because there's only the two of us and we both value family so greatly," Barbara says. "We're so blessed to be involved in so many projects — together."
Among the din of the hotel, with schedules jam-packed, the two move seamlessly together — one minute Marilyn speaks to a journalist while Barbara has her photo taken, the next Barbara is being interviewed while Marilyn sits for the video. Each says she doesn't know what she'd do without the other. And that's just the way they like it.
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Speedwell Launches wind production index for Spain
Speedwell Weather has launched an index tracking the REE energy production numbers in Spain based on mainland installed capacity as of December 2016. Data for over 20,000 turbines in over 1,000 wind farms has been used. The index is built using respective hub height wind data derived from the MERRA 2 reanalysis series and by applying the relevant power curve for each wind farm. The synthetic history of the index back to 1980 is available along with feeds and forecasts and is included in the SuperPack®-Premium subscription. The index is also available to trade on the weatherXchange® Platform.
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Speedwell SuperPack® January update
There are now approximately 1,000 component groups in SuperPack® and over 21,000 sites available for immediate access through the SuperPack primary archive (and another 100,000 sites in our secondary database that can be made available upon request).
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Speedwell Weather is pleased to announce the launch of the weatherXchange platform. weatherXchange is a platform which helps companies access index-based weather risk protection and which provides valuation and settlement services.
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Speedwell SuperPack® October update
There are now over 980 component groups in SuperPack® and over 20,800 sites available for immediate access through the SuperPack primary archive
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Speedwell SuperPack® update notification: New Data Group Added
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12th June 2015
SuperPack®, the unique weather data service which provides clients with unlimited immediate access to thousands of world-wide data sets continues to grow.
This month, additions include expanded coverage in Slovenia and Ukraine; more hourly data sets in Australia and new data sets covering growing conditions for Turkish
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SuperPack® update: New packs have been added covering ports in Argentina and Brazil. A new population weighted basket has been added for Iran. New Agriculture
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12th Apr 2015.
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18th Mar 2015.
A new pack tracking growing conditions in the Brazil Robusta coffee growing area is now available to Commodity Product users and SuperPack users. Click
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4th Mar 2015.
SuperPack® update: New data packs have now been added for Denmark, Norway, Poland, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Ghana and Chile. New commodity site groups
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5th Feb 2015.
We continue to expand our range of high-quality observations in key agri-producing areas. New sites of cleaned temperature and rainfall data covering arabica coffee growing areas are now
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13th Jan 2015.
GFS Model Change: clients are alerted to a major change in the GFS Operational model which will be reflected in Speedwell raw and downscaled forecasts from 1200 UTC 14th Jan 2015. Please
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12th Dec 2014.
We are delighted to have won Environmental Finance's Best Advisory/Data Firm 2014 for the seventh year in a row. Click
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21st Nov 2014.
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30th Oct 2014.
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Speedwell announces the release of its data and forecast API. The WCF-based API allows SuperPack® clients to access historical
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15th Sep 2014.
Speedwell SuperPack® subscribers now have access to over 6,000 sites offering hourly temperature feeds across the USA from the Citizen Weather Observing Program.
8th Sep 2014.
We now offering 3-hourly ensemble wind forecasts based on the ECMWF model in Europe. These are available for 10m and 100m heights and can be delivered as U and V components or as resolved
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1st Sep 2014.
We are delighted that Hannah Bennett, one of our UK-based meteorologists has today completed a solo crossing of the English Channel in a time of 13 hour and 36 minutes having started at
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28th August 2014.
We are now able to offer data for over 2,000 rainfall and climate sites in Germany from Deutsche Wetterdienst. We are still assimilating this data but the initial coverage of daily
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7th July 2014.
We are pleased to announce the release of SWS Version 10. The Speedwell Weather System is the dominant software for pricing weather risk and managing a portfolio of weather risk contracts.
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28th May 2014.
We continue to expand our agri-weather data sets and forecasts. We have added packs covering the main peanut growing regions of the United States, including southeastern states and the
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2nd May 2014
Brazil Weather Data: we have greatly expanded our products in Brazil. Please contact us for high quality ensemble forecasts and weather data for key agri areas in Brazil.
10th April 2014
We continue to expand our agri-weather data sets and forecasts. We have added packs covering the Ukraine Soybean area, Iran Spring and Winter Wheat, cotton in Burkina Faso and Benin, Rabi
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9th April 2014
We now offer 15 packs covering hydro catchment areas in China, Australia and Europe. These packs provide cleaned histories, cleaned feeds and ECMWF-based probabilistic ensemble forecasts
8th April 2014
Our list of available high-quality downscaled ensemble forecasts based on the ECMWF model continues to grow. We now offer over 2,000. We only produce forecasts where we also have high-quality
ground truth.
3th April 2014
We have added population-weighted data sets and forecasts for Argentina and Chile. These include a weighted basket of historical data and ensemble forecasts based on both the ECMWF and GFS
20th February 2014
We are pleased to announce the release of SWS Version 9. The Speedwell Weather System is the dominant software for pricing weather risk and managing a portfolio of weather risk contracts.
Version 9 sees significant back and middle office enhancements including new regulatory reporting features required under Dodd Frank and EMIR.
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31st January 2014
SWS Version 9 is close to Beta release. The Speedwell Weather System is the dominant software for pricing weather risk and managing a portfolio of weather risk contracts. Version 9 sees
significant back and middle office enhancements including new regulatory reporting features required under Dodd Frank and EMIR.
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30th January 2014
Speedwell Weather has released SettleCast®, a new forecast product designed for weather risk contracts which settle on forecast values rather
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SettleCast forecasts are tailored to the needs of the specific energy market convention they serve and are currently available for over 80 European sites
(here) based on the standard European gas-day convention. Please click
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29th January 2014
Speedwell Weather is acting as settlement agent for what is believed to be the biggest weather risk transfer transaction to date brought by World Bank on behalf of the Uruguay state-run
utility company, UTE, and based on rainfall in Uruguay/Brazil. Our involvement has included data sourcing, data quality control and the installation of weather stations. We are providing
quality controlled data for settlement of the transaction and acting as settlement agent. Please click
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28th January 2014
We are pleased to announce a partnership with ZE Group Inc,
a global leader in enterprise data management solutions. Speedwell weather data is now available through ZE's ZEMA suite. Please click
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Contest Winners Announced!
50 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Congratulations Cedric, you deserve it.ReplyDelete
Does this mean the Granny will be implemented?
I bet it was Leandro who cheated, huh?ReplyDelete
Anonymous: The prizes are what was stated above. It doesn't mean that I'm ruling out the possibility that some of the finalists might end up in the game but that's not being worked on currently.ReplyDelete
Machination, it was not Leandro. The artist in question is very sorry about what happened and has apologized. Please let's not start a witch-hunt.
For the next competition maybe it could be to design a new map. Other options can be new playable characters as well as monsters/characters/maps that are themed to be suited for a specific environment, or for a particular holiday season. I hope monster design competitions will be the most frequent though :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 11:09 AM
No offense but Sasquatch and yeti are like the same thing to me...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Will I be able to play the snow map on multiplayer in the next update?ReplyDelete
info on minigore anytime soon?ReplyDelete
But I'm so sad, because I could not complete my monster made out of cake(((
- Wacko JackoJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Dosnt this mean it was pyrobat who cheated no offense.ReplyDelete
Btw mountainsheep how did u like me and my friends entry the Frankengore monster made out of clay.
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM
will we be getting any updates anytime soon? and can we get info on them, its been over a month since the last update and i'm really looking forward to these new characters, and the jenny gore lake map and zombie mode!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:39 PM
I voted minigore for the best app. I hope you guys win.ReplyDelete
Is the next update being beta tested now?
Hi the names AJ I had a slight thought about the zombie mode I was thinking about implimenting a Barry steakfries character courtesy of halfbrck as he could end up in hardland forest due to dr.evils time machine, just a thought. Ciao AJReplyDelete
And well done guys on the comedy some class pics there, any news on the update ms, don't rush just make it as good as possible, as always. AJ it definitely is 'becoming a strange world out there' xDReplyDelete
* contest * dam iPod suggestive typing lolReplyDelete
Alright! Glad to see all the hard work and great ideas the fan base has to offer!! I had no idea there were so many talented artists here! Congrats to all the winners, you guys ALL really deserve it!ReplyDelete
First anonymous above me: Me too! But the competition is steep, it seems.
Anonymous above previous anonymous: We're all looking forward to future content. =) I think the best thing to do is just to wait, as there's not much else to do. =)
Those prizes look very nice. Congratulations again, guys.
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Yay I voted all three of those :)ReplyDelete
- Wacko JackoJanuary 19, 2011 at 7:45 PM
I agree with Cooper a comp for best map would be sick!!! Not much variety though. I would do a desert map with cactie in the ground which hurt u when u touch them and mummies instead of furies or a haunted house with ghosts.ReplyDelete
If u like my ideas or agree with me suggest it again!
Thanks for listening!!!
nice artwork! I hope these characters to see in Minigore soon.ReplyDelete
Bravo Cedric! Bravo!ReplyDelete
I will be waiting in the icy mountains.....ReplyDelete
Congrats to the winners! Glad at least one of the ones I voted for won. But really, who could resist Granny Gore? :DReplyDelete
Spike27mike: Updates have been postponed about a month because a new full-time programmer just started working on Minigore. Funny thing is that he's also called Timo, so we have two Timo's at the office :) Kimmo has been teaching him all the necessary things about our engine code. Once he's all set he'll help us make better updates. His first task is the HD version update.ReplyDelete
Anonymous: Thanks for voting Minigore in the best app awards!
Wacko Jacko, I liked your clay frankenstein monster! Was the clay something specific like super sculpey?
- Wacko JackoJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:17 PM
Thanks timo actually it wasn't just normal $12 block of clay down at riots arts and crafts shop. Timo did it ever have a chance of being in the top 10, becuase and my friend did put alot of effort into it???ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Delays after delays after delays. Why can't you just work on the one thing at a time. You said that multiplayer would come in the FIRST update, along with the 'mushroom' update. Still, we don't have either of that, since WLAN multiplayer is just pointless.ReplyDelete
It's probably why Minigore still hasn't come out on the PSP (like announced) or XBLA and PSN. Good game, that lacks features and made by lazy, incompetent developers. That's a bit harsh, yes. Maybe it might finally get through to you though. YOU NEED TO WORK ON THE GAME, not keep announcing new things and adding them. Zombies? WHERE IS THAT?
- FangfanJanuary 20, 2011 at 3:53 PM
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The Mountain Sheep team is working on TEACHING SOMEONE NEW! This means things may get pushed back, but eventually they will move faster. They are not "lazy" or "incompetent", they are just trying to make the game high quality.
I mean, if you want crappy zombies, they should JUST RELEASE THEM NOW(Caps Lock was for sarcasm)
Not to sound rude or anything, but if you can do better, why don't you?
You guys are doing a great job so far, and I can't wait until the next update! How much progress have you gotten on the Dark Knight?
Some Suggestions:
1. Jerry Gore, Zombieville Guy, Hook Champ, Xmas Gore, and Santa should also have shotguns as displayed in their pictures. (Each one better than the one before it.)
2.Ninja Man should have a sword.(Like the Dark Knight, but not as good?)
3. Evan Hsu should have one grenade launcher.(To correspond with Sensei.)
4. Did I come up with the idea for the Fur-Bombs? I doubt it, but I have to know, either way! I believe I called them Suicide Furries at the time.
Similar to my original description:
Green, and once shot a couple of times got bigger until they explode.
- FangfanJanuary 20, 2011 at 3:55 PM
By the way, I don't want to start a war, I'm just trying to back Mountain Sheep up. And by the way, why haven't the haters quit yet? Sounds kind of strange to have people that hate the game and love it at the same time.ReplyDelete
The world can be quite weird, lol.
Mountain sheep:ReplyDelete
If I bought a character pack and later got a new ipod and installed Minigore in it, will my character pack be in it? Or did I just lost 1 buck?
Wouldn't it be cool if you guys upgraded the bosses? Like when the furries stopped coming at night it would say BOSS in huge letters followed by WORMWOLF underneath it.ReplyDelete
Some boss suggestions
Black Bull=Like john's minotaur only is all black and has a spine of thorns running down his back. He does the foot-dragging-in-dirt thing then shoots steam out of his ears, after that he charges at you VERY fast.
The Puppet Master! Yes obviously not my idea but don't you think that'd be an awesome elite boss! Like he shows up only after rounds of 5?
I think it would be cool if at the very right of the pause button next the kills you got points. Like 10 kills=1 point or something. Then you could add a bunch of gadgets and whatnot on the map. Like a crate drop, 50 points to activate and you get a crate, or 500 points and you can activate a sentry gun til it gets killed by a bomb. Maybe you could add special weapons in the crate box that you could only get there! Like you can get a lasergun (from zombiville) but you couldnt get that in an airdrop.
Underneath the 3 hearts return the 3 clovers?
I forget where i saw it but in some zombie footage i saw DAY 3 after night left. Can you do that with the furries too?
PLZ no more exploding crates! Its very annoying!
I'd also really like a flamethrower. I figured if you take away the fire and just make some fast, some slow, then you could just use the fire animations you already have to kill with the flamethrower!
Some other ponderous weapons
+chainsaw (while weilding cannot be injured by furbombs)
+Minigun=Gattling gun= Death machine :p
+An acidic cannon (does more damage than the flamethrower but has less range)
+Lasergun! Like zombiville! Gives you a straight line of DEATH but has low ammo
I'm not like one of those losers in the app store that goes "insert wants".... And if these are met I will give you 5 stars instead of 3! I find that really annoying and im sure you guys don't even read them, but i really hope that by some chance you would read this and consider ANY of this stuff.
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Love your ideas Mike! I think they should make it so you can unlock different weapons for each character, like being able to choose from a grenade launcher or a shotgun or a machine gun. And make the guns unlockable after so many points (Mike's idea), like how the characters unlock with kills. Still make the characters come with their own weapon, so sensei evan would still come with grenade launchers, but you can unlock other guns for him. I think you should make him start out with one grenade launcher, and cost only 500000 kills or something, NOT 1000000! Then you should make dual-wielding an upgrade that you can choose, so you can have like two shotguns or a shotgun and a machine gun. I also think vehicles would be an amazing upgrade. Maybe for some characters, after getting three clovers they upgrade into a vehicle instead of a monster, like maybe a tank that can also shoot rockets or something. And with Mike's idea of the points for getting crates or something special, you could make it so you buy weapons and upgrades with the points. And maybe after 1000 points, you could drop a vehicle. Also make the unlockable guns for each character different, so i cant just buy a 100 kill character and get the dual grenade launchers eventually after getting so many points. Maybe different melees you can unlock for the frog and night. Thanks for such an awesome game! I hope you consider our ideas!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 11:41 AM
I have unlocked every character and purchased the dlcs...now what?ReplyDelete
- GuyMcpersonJanuary 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM
I don't think that two primates should have won, and even if the pyro bat dude cheated, I still think his Was the second best... I'm just sayin I'm disappointed in the winners. I personally didn't like either the yeti or the Sasquatch. The pyrobats and the three brothers seemed pretty awesome. I think u guys shoulda had 5 winners rather than 3ReplyDelete
And btw, i do think that what that guy did was wrong, but u shouldn't have punished the fans by taking away a good character.
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM
@GuyMcperson They didn't "take away" the pyrobat; Mountain Sheep said they only removed the illegal votes towards it, therefore lowering its votes by a significant amount to below 3rd Place.ReplyDelete
nice ideas mike. You should post them on forums :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 10:55 PM
I'd like to fight granny or sasquatch but not realy yetiReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 10:57 PM
weapon contest sound goodReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 6:35 AM
Spike27mike: Updates have been postponed about a month because a new full-time programmer just started working on Minigore. Funny thing is that he's also called Timo, so we have two Timo's at the office :) Kimmo has been teaching him all the necessary things about our engine code. Once he's all set he'll help us make better updates. His first task is the HD version update.ReplyDelete
Do you mean updates to the blog or updates to the game?
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM
@GuyMcperson Actually they never said that the monsters will be included in the game, so they're not "punishing the fans by taking away a good character".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 7:50 PM
i like mustachesReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM
I just think if...does the game can have an story mode...would be MORE AWESOME...bosses...well that stuff :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 11:11 PM
I'm Backkk!!! :D what's up everybody?!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 8:52 AM
there should be a banana bossReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM
are we gonna be able to play against these characters? that would really suck if we couldn't :(ReplyDelete
They're awesome!!!
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM
congrats to the winners!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Are Jenny Gore (normal) and the Dark knight going to be purchased characters with kills or dlc characters and when will they be released?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:16 PM
I think the next contest should be on maps or playable characters!!! :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2011 at 10:01 AM
hey timo, or kimmo, or well anyone. I just wanted to ask what language minigore is written in? and did you use photoshop for the graphics?ReplyDelete
I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I'll love to read your next post too.ReplyDelete
Hey, very nice site. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definitely be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table, but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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'Big' month of May in Jefferson County
BROOKVILLE — Tuesday, the Jefferson County Commissioners proclaimed the month of May as Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Month in the county.
Attending the proclamation meeting were Heidi Stahl-necker, BBBS program coordinator for Jefferson, Elk and McKean counties, and LuAnn McMackin of the Guidance Center, which oversees the local program.
"Big Brothers Big Sisters is a proven effective program and is one of the oldest prevention programs around," Stahlnecker said, citing statistics that indicate program benefits.
Children who meet with their big brother or big sister about three times a month for an average of one year:
• Are 46 percent less likely to begin using illegal drugs;
• Are 27 percent less likely to begin using alcohol;
• Are 30 percent less likely to be involved in a fight;
• Miss 52 percent less days of school;
• Are 37 percent less likely to skip a class;
• Have improved academic performance;
• Have improved peer and family relationships.
These results are not brought about by intense programming during the youth's meetings with bigs, but rather through positive influence during everyday activities, Stahlnecker said.
"Mentors in the study didn't do anything special," she said. "It was not the activities that made the difference, but the fact that they have another positive, caring adult in their lives.
"Whether a day is spent helping with homework, playing catch or just listening, these moments can have an enormous, lasting effect on the child's life," Stahlnecker said.
The proclamation read, in part, that it allows the Commissioners of Jefferson County to "recognize and support those who give generously of themselves by mentoring our youth through the Big Brothers of Jefferson County program."
Commission Chairman Paul Corbin said the commissioners "extend our appreciation to you and your work."
"This is a very valuable program to people who are able to utilize it, both the participants and the kids," he said.
The commissioners said BBBS is an especially valuable program because it fulfills a needed service that is not offered by other public services.
"Many of us are fortunate to recall a role model from our youth who pushed us to succeed, or pulled us back from making a poor decision," Stahlnecker said. "We carry their wisdom with us throughout our lives, knowing the unique and timeless gift of mentorship."
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been active in Jefferson County since July of 2008, and the Jefferson County program was given the highest rating possible by the BBBS national office in March of 2010.
Despite the program's success, Stahlnecker said more mentors are needed. Currently, there are more than 40 youth waiting for mentors, and half of those are from the Punxsutawney area.
BBBS will present information regarding membership at the Punxsutawney Area Community Center May 11 from 5 to 6:30. Interested residents can stop in during that time.
Also, for more information on the program, call 1-877-776-1636.


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When the centers of any three coins lie in the corners of an equilateral triangle of some size, such coins form an equilateral coin triangle. How many equilateral coin triangles of different sizes can you count in the figure?
The object of the puzzle now is to remove the minimum number of coins so that no equilateral coin triangles remain. In other words, centers of any three coins among those that remained don't lie in the corners of an equilateral triangle.
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If you are one of the 3 million Samsung Galaxy S owners waiting on Android 2.2, just be glad you didn't go with a Sony Ericsson X10 phone on AT&T. That device shipped with the outdated Android 1.6 in August and it might not even get Android 2.1 till next year.
What is the reason for the hold up? In a wall post on Facebook, Sony Ericsson points the finger at AT&T and their "especially rigorous" testing process which can take several months to complete.
Sprint and HTC delivered the Android 2.2 update for the EVO just six weeks after it was released, so we know not all carriers are the cause for slow software support. Verizon and Motorola then updated the Droid to Android 2.2 right after Sprint did the EVO, so they also have Android updates figured out.
Out of all the national U.S. carriers, AT&T has done the worst job at supporting their Android devices after launch.
We have heard some rumors that AT&T would not be providing any Android 2.2 updates over the air and would go with a wired software update, but the company doesn't have any phones with Android 2.2 yet so we are unable to confirm that. It looks like they will eventually update the Samsung Captivate, but we have no release date at this time.
At the end of the day I don't know if we should place the full blame on the carriers, but they play a large role in the software support equation. Unless you have a hacked device and load custom ROMS, then the carrier if the main source of software updates in the U.S. market.
It doesn't look like that situation is going to change anytime soon, so keep that in mind next time your AT&T contract comes up for renewal. Would you rather wait six weeks for your next software update or six months?
Sony Ericsson's message to X10 customers on Facebook:
Many of you are aware that we are currently in the midst of rolling out a software update for the Xperia line of handsets. We'd like to take a moment to address your questions about how and why an update is made available.
One factor in determining a software update is when a country first received the handset. The Xperia X10 has been available in some countries since March 2010 and they are also the first to receive the update. The U.S. received the X10 in August 2010 and will receive the update after the initial countries.
The second and more impactful factor of the timeline addresses the technical requirements that must be met in order for an update to take place — no matter which country you live in. Unfortunately, we have no control of that timeline factor. Those requirements are provided to us and we work hard to meet and test them as quickly as we can. In the U.S., the testing process is especially rigorous, and can take months to complete, which is why we cannot announce the timing for availability of the X10 update in the U.S. It's not that we don't want to; it's that the timing is undefined until such testing is completed.
We hear and understand your frustration. We too want you to enjoy the most out of your Sony Ericsson products. We promise to keep you updated on where we are in the process moving forward as more information is ready to be made public. Please stay tuned to this Facebook tab!
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MEA-MFT member and Montana 2011 Teacher of the Year Paul Andersen spoke to the Montana Legislature Feb. 9 about his ideas for improving education. Wow!
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How free tools can turn you into a web diviner
So you want to turn your website into a lead generating machine?
Instead of counting on your marketing intuition, you should tap the intelligence offered by search engine optimisation (SEO) tools, experts say.
The web has a wealth of free, easily handled SEO tools that shed light on your site and your competitors'.
Setting aside the clunky industry standards – Google Keywords and Google Analytics – here are five alternative no-cost tools that can help you become an SEO seer as dollars move from offline to online in a shift that Search Engine Watch dubs "seismic".
1. SEO Sorcerer
Head to the SEO Sorcerer home page, paste the address of the website you want to improve, hit "check" and presto! SEO Sorcerer assesses hundreds of your site's key metrics from keywords and links to spelling – free.
SEO Sorcerer is a doddle to use, if blunt. "High percentage of links to content – are you spam?" reads one pre-programmed SEO Sorcerer question. The optimisation app freely gives its opinion on every angle of your website's performance, with no hocus-pocus. Be prepared for a flood of constructive criticism.
2. Copyscape
The free plagiarism checker, Copyscape enables you to detect duplicate content, testing whether the texts you run on your site are original.
Copyscape may prove useful if you ever slack at paraphrasing pasted text.
If you run guest posts, it must be worth subjecting them to Copyscape scans because you never know if they are original until you check.
Copied content can harm your search ranking because Google prefers unique material, experts say.
Copyscape's hawk-eyed oversight could save you from a shameful drop in ranking.
The web information organisation Alexa ranks 30 million websites worldwide. The company's browser extension, Alexa Traffic Rank, is more versatile than it sounds - one of the handiest optimisation tools in the cloud.
Alexa installs as a browser plug-in represented by a branded blue bar that visually depicts the popularity of each site you visit, including yours.
Hover over the icon and you see the website's traffic rank. Click and you see data including the site under scrutiny's load speed and the number of other sites "linking in" to it.
Alexa offers sharp insight into your website and your competitors', showing how hot they really are. Illuminating.
Another widely used SEO analysis tool, Marketing Grader is attractively simple, even personable. "Yay! You have a blog!" reads one Marketing Grader observation that belies the tool's intelligence.
To tap it, you feed Marketing Grader your website's address. If you fancy having a stickybeak, you can also feed it the web addresses of two competitors.
Marketing Grader addresses a range of SEO areas, for example explaining whether a website has a mobile version, how often the owner blogs and whether the blog is easily found.
Marketing Grader even supplies its top three suggested "action items".
It may, say, tell you to ensure your blog article titles are unique and under 75 characters. It may also advise you to add social sharing buttons to your blog or site and to tweet more often. As well, Marketing Grader rates each site it inspects on a scale of 0 to 100.
Quick and clear, SEO-Browser.com lets you view your website as a search engine does, minus any pretty pictures, putting you on a level with the likes of Bing and Google.
For a free peek at the plain truth, just click the SEO-Browser.com button marked "simple". The big-picture app then exposes any glaring flaws you need to fix fast for credibility's sake.
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There is no cure for heart disease or lung disease. Cardiac rehabilitation and other treatments can
relieve symptoms and help you feel better, but you need to take care of
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Our team of cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) experts develops customized
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As one of the longest-standing cardiac rehabilitation programs, our team of
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The goals of cardiac rehabilitation are to:
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Pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation programs typically last about three months and are often
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Medical evaluation: Pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation begins with a medical
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Dietary guidance: Our dietician will teach you
guidelines for a healthy diet. Eating a healthy diet can help you:
We can also help you with meal planning.
Exercise training: Exercise is a big part of any
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Support: Counseling can help you adapt to changes
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Inuit tweet 'sealfies' to protest Ellen's Oscars selfie
After Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars selfie raised $1.5 million for an anti-seal hunt organization, Canada's Inuit have started a new viral phenomenon — sealfies.
Seal hunt proponents tweeted pictures of themselves decked out in sealskin clothes at DeGeneres Thursday.
"I am an Inuit seal meat eater, and my fur is ethical," wrote Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, bundled in a sealskin coat, pants and boots. She also wrote a letter to DeGeneres and posted it online.
Samsung vowed to donate $1 for every retweet of DeGeneres' celebrity-packed Oscars selfie to a charity of her choice. She raised $1.5 million for the Humane Society of the United States, which campaigns annually against Canada's seal hunt.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show's website calls the seal hunt "one of the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals allowed by any government."
The Inuit have long defended the hunt as a sustainable practice, deeply rooted in Inuit culture, which helps feed people in a region plagued by hunger.
"The meat feeds families, which is important to an area where many households have identified that they face issues of food insecurity," said Sandi Vincent, 26, of Rankin Inlet who posted her own sealfie Thursday.
The pelts also come in handy in the cold northern climate and provide a needed source of income, she said.
She also countered the idea of the hunt as "inhumane."
"In Inuit culture, it is believed seals and other animals have souls and offer themselves to you. Humanely and with gratitude we accepted this gift," she said, reminiscing about catching her first seal at age 15.
"My uncle placed some snow in the seals mouth when it was dead, so its soul would not be thirsty. If there is one word to describe seal hunting, I would suggest respectful."
Hey, @TheEllenShow, I support the sustainable harvesting of seal. #sealfie #mitts pic.twitter.com/OYAUsubKUM— Taha Tabish (@taabai) March 27, 2014
@TheEllenShow #sealfie pic.twitter.com/iqcdzmeXtY— Sapatie Stokes (@Sapatie) March 26, 2014
@TheEllenShow I am an Inuit seal meat eater, and my fur is ethical, humane. #sealfie vs. #selfie pic.twitter.com/tI4c3NxbEY— Alethea/Aggiuq (@Alethea_Aggiuq) March 26, 2014


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If you're not taking advantage of rebate and tax deduction programs offered by your state, the federal government, and electric utilities in your area, you're not doing yourself or your customers any favors. Monetary incentives for these programs run the gamut from installation of insulation, water heaters, high-efficiency windows, and HVAC systems to solar, wind, and fuel cell power generation systems. Although these types of programs were developed for a variety of reasons, they can all help kick-start our struggling economy back into a spending groove.
Because our theme for this month's issue is lighting, I thought it would be worthwhile to point out a few programs targeting this product area. Keep these in mind when speaking to your best prospects in the coming weeks and months.
In the fall of 2008, Congress extended the Commercial Building Tax Deduction through 2013. This piece of legislation allows building owners to claim a deduction of up to $1.80 per sq ft for HVAC, lighting, or building envelope upgrades, resulting in 50% savings over ANSI/ASHRAE/ESNA Standard 90.1-2001. Partial reductions that provide a $0.30 to $0.60 per sq ft deduction for improvements in lighting efficiency are also still in effect. And if the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, D.C., gets its wish, Congress will increase the commercial buildings tax deduction from $1.80 per sq ft to $3.00 per sq ft. This was just one recommendation set forth in AIA's recently released Rebuild and Renew Plan.
You should also pay close attention to your local electric utility rebate programs. A wonderful resource for these types of programs is the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE), which is an ongoing project of the North Carolina Solar Center, Raleigh, N.C., and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC), Latham, N.Y. This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. IREC's mission is to accelerate the use of renewable energy sources and technologies in and through state and local government and community activities. According to the DSIRE Web site, on average, about 60 programs are verified or updated each month. But be advised, the dollars set aside in these programs can be gobbled up quickly. If you don't act fast, you and your clients could find yourselves on a waiting list — or totally out of luck.
One example from this database is the 2009 Commercial/Industrial and Area Lighting Efficiency Program offered by the Nebraska Public Power District. This program offers per-fixture incentives for replacement of older technology HID, MH, and incandescent lamps/luminaires with newer fluorescent lamp/luminaire products. Customer incentives range from $6 to $10 per lamp and $20 to $75 per luminaire. A second example comes from the Northeast. Public Service of New Hampshire, in collaboration with nhsaves, offers prescriptive rebates for a variety of lighting systems and control devices. According to the site, eligible retrofit projects may qualify for a rebate equal to the lesser of 35% of the total cost or buy down to one-year payback. I saw similar programs in several other areas of the country.
As we muddle through this economic slump, lighting upgrade projects should be high on your list of service offerings. Not only do they make good sense for you on a profitability level, but they also make great sense for your clients. If you're not exactly sure how to get started on finding and selling these types of projects to your clients, then turn to page 26 and start reading this month's cover story, "Selling Up Without Selling Out." With the help of some key contributors, Staff Writer Beck Ireland has developed a list of eight tips that will help you close that next big deal.


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Western to offer summer writing conference for teens
DANBURY, CONN. — From sports writing to screen writing, the Young Writers Conference at Western Connecticut State University will offer plenty of workshops for teens this summer.
From July 24 through 29, students in grades 7 through 12 will spend five days learning to write in their favorite genre. Workshops will include:
• Writing the short story
• Introduction to writing poetry
• Advanced poetry writing
• Sports writing
• Human interest writing
• Screen writing
• Reading body language
• Public speaking
• Song writing
• Writing the college admissions essay
• College interview
The workshops will be led by published writers and all students will have an opportunity to see their work in print in the 2011 conference journal.
Tuition for resident students in grades 9 through 12 is $950 and includes a (double) dorm room, a get-acquainted party on Sunday night and breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Friday. Tuition for day students, grades 7 through 12, is $550 and includes breakfast and lunch for the week. Registration deadline is June 30 for resident students and July 15 for day students. There is a $50 discount for those registering before June 1.
For more information, contact Lynn Paris-Purtle at email@example.com.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.